Mr. President. are the posterity of the framers of the Constitution? The Constitution provides for naturalizing foreigners. Will anyone say that the 10.000.000 Germans in the United States are not our "posterity " in the sense that word is used in the Constitution of the United States. Have they not been "adopted" by naturalization? Will anyone deny that any human being taken within the jurisdiction of the United States is the posterity spoken of by the framers of the Constitution? When the population of the province of Louisiana were taken in by adoption they became heirs to all the privileges and immunities and rights granted by the Constitution of the United States to freemen coming within the operation of its provisions and coming under the jurisdiction of its flag.
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